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My main problem with directv2pc is the parental lock 'feature'. I never set parental locks on my receivers so there is nothing to turn off. I have found the unlock code 0000 works but still adds time to getting into any program that has no rating like baseball games or has a > PG rating.

Maybe there is some work around for this but have not seen the answer yet.

If you go to the menu screen and unlock the Parental setting once, it fixes the issue permanently.

I also have a similar problem. The app starts fine, but crash when starting to play a recorded video. I hear probably 2 seconds of sound no video...then a Window 7 popup stating the app is no longer working. Anybody have a solution?

Well I have updated my DirecTV2PC software 3 times. I have SAVED the keys. Each time I use the same key it tells me that the software has reached its activation limit and will not let me reuse the key. I have YET to ever be able to reuse a key so I stopped saving them.

Anyone know if there is a slow motion key? I can hit and hold ctrl-p and it stutters between pause and play simulating slow motion but the sound comes in and out and it is a more jittery than natural slow motion.

Well I have updated my DirecTV2PC software 3 times. I have SAVED the keys. Each time I use the same key it tells me that the software has reached its activation limit and will not let me reuse the key. I have YET to ever be able to reuse a key so I stopped saving them.

Could be worse. I've created 8 additional email addresses just for the purpose of getting directv2pc keys. Why they limit to two when anyone can simply create a fake email addy and get more is a mystery. They also wont take the gmail "address+word@gmail.com" that routes email to your regular gmail, so a simple way to go around the limit doesnt work.

I guess I am in the same boat as above

Brand new Dell XPS 15, Full HD Screen, Same as above, SD plays as it should, HD is a Green Screen.

Nice to know that I'm not the only one spending a chunk of change to get a pretty decent laptop (Core i7, 6GB Ram, 750GB hard Drive, Intel HD Graphics, Blu-ray, etc) only to find out that the DirecTV2PC software won't play my recorded content.

I'm having the same issue. Apparently the content protection in Directv2pc doesnt recognize the new(er) intel integrated graphics products. I just built an i3 with the hd3000 graphics, and everything works great with it. Except d2pc gives me a green screen.

I guess they've successfully protected the content from us. Even though you can get 99% of any content you want from 1000 other places, probably with greater ease and convenience.

I have never had key problems
I've upgraded over 2 dozen times and used the same keys.
During this time, I have had hardware failures which has caused four keys to no longer work.
I've upgrade versions of Windows, and used the same key later on the same machine.

Suddenly tonight I can not watch Monday Night Football. I've not changed anything for a while. I always watch sports or the news after the wife goes to bed. Tonight, I get a content protection error telling me to update my monitor drivers. So I went upstairs and clicked record on the R22. Every time I try to watch it crashes. So downstairs connects and works fine, but stops after a little bit with a error, and upstairs doesn't work at all. Bummmmmmmer

HR34-700 on a 73" Mitsubishi 1080P
HR22-100 on a 23" Acer Monitor (3 input w/Dual monitor and Home server on KVM )
R22-100 on a 42" Vizio 1080P
R22 on a 32" Sylvania 1080i
R22 on a 32" Sanyo 1080i
H24 on a 26" Westinghouse 1080i
Plus 3 D12's on other TVs

I have downloaded the program and try to install it and it tells me it detects a previous version which is the one I was using to this point. It then asks if I want to uninstall it before installing 7507. I say yes. It then sits for a few seconds and then an error box pops up saying "Error. The product definition file lost." And the install aborts here. Previous version is still active and not uninstalled. New version not installed.

What do I need to do to get the new version installed?

When I say no to the uninstall question, the install aborts too. Nothing gets updated.

Anyone know if there is a slow motion key? I can hit and hold ctrl-p and it stutters between pause and play simulating slow motion but the sound comes in and out and it is a more jittery than natural slow motion.

There is supposed to be a directv2pc pdf that details short cut keys, I did a bit of looking and the PDFs I found did not have anything about a short cut key.

OK I tried to uninstall using the info in the help section of the previous version and then the install program started for the new version just fine. I entered my key and everything seemed fine until an error box appeared with "Error 1334" and about a certain file with a VERY long name that was not found in cab1.

Annoying. Really, there must be an easier way to go about this...:icon_lame

I had this working on 2 pc's 3 weeks ago with a netgear wndrmac as the router. Starting 2 weeks ago I had to reload windows and the program on the 2 pc's and afterwards I could no longer see my Directv receivers. I have allowed the program in Norton Internet Security, I have made sure sharing was enabled on both pc's and all settings in the router are correct even open a port on the router that directv suggested. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

I just got a new laptop, 1st non-Mac unit in a very long time. I thought I'll just get this little app and away I'll go.

A bit disappointing. Slow and twitchy and doesn't do the HD playback very well at all. IMO, the app seems to be much more involved than I would have thought it would need to be. The install takes way too long which indicates someone is getting carried away with their coding.

Overall, it is fine for SD on my laptop, not very good at all for HD. Good enough, but of limited value.

I just got a new laptop, 1st non-Mac unit in a very long time. I thought I'll just get this little app and away I'll go.

A bit disappointing. Slow and twitchy and doesn't do the HD playback very well at all. IMO, the app seems to be much more involved than I would have thought it would need to be. The install takes way too long which indicates someone is getting carried away with their coding.

Overall, it is fine for SD on my laptop, not very good at all for HD. Good enough, but of limited value.

I'm a Mac person and this laptop was bought on the cheap 'cause I don't have much of a need for a laptop at all these days. So I got what I paid for.

That said, this laptop does just fine with HD streams from other sources. I call poor programming on this particular piece of software.

Call it what you may, but I've been running this on some fairly "underpowered" PCs from the earliest days. There always has been some extra decoding as the file on the DVR is encrypted and then add to this the MPEG-4 [which is offloaded to the GPU now]. Once the GPU handled the MPEG-4, I was able to use an old Pentium 4HT "slowed down" to under 2 GHz.The Intel graphics chips have always been troublesome with this app.

The Intel graphics onboard is a big deal in the laptop world, especially at the lower to low-mid level laptops. And Intel has made them better and better over the years. There is no excuse for a program that is not a game to not work well with it. Poor programming.

But all that said, I didn't buy the laptop for this app, nor had I even actually considered getting it, but I thought what the heck, I got a machine that should run most apps just fine and is certainly much more powerful than anything from just a few short years ago. I wouldn't buy a computer or sell one based on this app. It just isn't an important app, imo.

Messed around with my parental controls on my HR21 because I have a slingbox attached and I didn't want someone buying PPV's without my knowledge. Well anyways I turned off the parental controls but now shows TV-M or 14 appear as "Blocked Title" on DTV2PC. All content shows as allowed on the HR21. Any ideas?

Messed around with my parental controls on my HR21 because I have a slingbox attached and I didn't want someone buying PPV's without my knowledge. Well anyways I turned off the parental controls but now shows TV-M or 14 appear as "Blocked Title" on DTV2PC. All content shows as allowed on the HR21. Any ideas?

It ofter took me one or two parental code entries on the DIRECTV2PC before settings finally took. Just be patient and enter the code a couple of times, if this does not solve your problem, there may be other forces at play.

After a few years of this program working fairly well, last week I started getting the dreaded "An error has occurred" error message with no further information other than a yellow close button.

A Google search turns up several other people having the problem but not many suggestions. One suggestion was to reinstall directv2pc and reboot receivers. Did this, but no joy. Only one person found and posted his solution, a directv2pc codec was quarantined by McAfee. I use ZoneAlarm and tried turned it off, looked at for quarantined codecs with no luck.

Very frustrating because I don't know the first thing to do. I began to count on this program to watch TV on my computer when the wife had dibs on the main TV.

Looking at my add remove programs I see that microsoft silverlight was installed on 10/12.. So I will removed it and same problem.

I am thinking most likely a Windows 7 auto update killed the program or a Directv2pc auto update suddenly broke it on my computer. I have spend about 5 hours troubleshooting and don't know what else to try.

Any other ideas? Anyone else experience and fix this issue?

Edit:

Oh Happy Day! I stumbled on a fix. For anyone that comes upon this problem, try this.

1.) Uninstall the program2.) Reboot computer (I did not reboot the first time I uninstalled)3.) Use the latest activation key you have during installation. (I have two keys from 2010, the first reinstall I used the older key)

*** I knew I was on the right track as soon as I started Directv2pc for the first time. It started to load, then stopped and asked me to make sure I was connected to the internet then asked me to click on a yellow activate button. I clicked the activate button and I saw a downloading codecs message, when the new files finished downloading directv3pc opened. I clicked on a recorded program and it started perfectly.

The first time I reinstalled this program I never got the activate button and it did not download the codecs during the install.

I wish I knew for sure, but either step 2 or 3 were the difference between reinstall #1 not working and reinstall #2 working. Either my older activation key is no longer valid or the reboot cleared the registry of old info from the original install that went bad for some reason and made for a cleaner 'new' install.

It ofter took me one or two parental code entries on the DIRECTV2PC before settings finally took. Just be patient and enter the code a couple of times, if this does not solve your problem, there may be other forces at play.

Hmmm but I totally turned parental control back off and it still says some shows are blocked. It's really odd...